EHS Compliance Coordinator - Hatch Global Search

Job Description

An Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Compliance Coordinator's responsibilities include:

• Ensuring compliance: Ensuring that the company complies with environmental, health, and safety regulations and policies
• Planning and executing initiatives: Planning, coordinating, and carrying out daily initiatives to ensure compliance with EHS standards
• Conducting inspections: Completing inspections of the workplace and equipment
• Training employees: Coordinating occupational safety training for employees
• Monitoring compliance: Monitoring compliance with environmental and occupational safety regulations
• Handling hazardous materials: Overseeing the handling of hazardous materials at the company site
• Contributing to decision-making: Contributing to executive decision-making processes to ensure the company achieves higher standards
• Advocating for change: Advocating for improvement and change across all levels and functions of the company
• Maintaining awareness: Staying current with relevant EHS issues through liaison with other organizations
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  EHS Compliance Coordinator
  
  Location
  
  Tiverton Power - Tiverton, RI
  
  Major Duties & Responsibilities
  
  
  • Execute the Company’s EHS policies and procedures, including leading personnel and directly maintaining accurate data/documents in the EHS management systems. Programs include, but are not limited to:
    1. Title V Air Permit
    2. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Standards
    3. EPA Storm Water Management
    4. Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan
    5. Facility Response Plan / Integrated Contingency Plan
    6. All applicable OSHA and consensus standards, including NFPA 70E, General Industry (29 CFR 1910 (including Process Safety Management), Construction (29 CFR 1926) and Recordkeeping (29 CFR 1904)
    7. OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)
    8. EPA Hazardous Waste Regulations
    9. EPA Risk Management Program
    10. Part 75 and Part 60 CEMS
        
  • Produce, review and submit required regulatory reporting for the site with applicable oversite.
  • Act as the site’s coordinator with regulatory agencies, ensuring a positive, collaborative, and responsive relationship is maintained.
  • Become fluent in the management of the site’s Continuous Emissions Monitor and Data Acquisition and Handling Systems and act as lead interface to the OEM. Generate required reports with oversight, assure data accuracy, work with OEM to make corrections as required and ensure timely submittals of required reports.
    
  • Assist in establishing site goals and objectives and implement policies, programs, and procedures to ensure consistent application of the Company’s EHS compliance mission.
  • Help lead the plant's OSHA VPP Star program participation and good standing by fostering continuous improvement in safety and health programs, systems and safety culture.
  • “Hands on” assistance to operating personnel assuring EHS compliance and assisting the site in physical and process improvements that can reduce compliance risks while minimizing operating expenses.
  • Participate in incident and near miss event investigations using root cause analysis methodology. Contribute to corrective action development, implementation and tracking.
  • Participate in site regulatory and internal audits as required.
  • Keep abreast of new and changing regulatory requirements as they relate to EHS compliance at the site.
  • Support off hours, nights and weekends, evolutions such as outages or emergency response as required.
    
  
  Education/Experience Required
  
  
  • Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences, engineering or related field.
  • Specialized regulatory knowledge and experience with Clean Air Act programs and general regulatory knowledge in other disciplines (e.g., CWA, EPCRA, CERCLA, RCRA,, RMP). Knowledge and experience with Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems and the related quality assurance activities is highly beneficial.
  • Strong organization, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels within the plant and corporate organizations.
  • Ability to perform and coordinate multiple tasks and issues simultaneously and perform assigned responsibilities at a high level in a fast-paced, often changing environment.
  • Develop leadership skills with an emphasis on driving for results and strategic thinking and planning.
  • Effective team player with a record of consensus building with internal/external parties.